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Eight Penn State undergraduate student research teams from five campuses will represent Penn State as the largest Pennsylvania college or university contingent at the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday morning (March 3) in Harrisburg. They will present their research with students from more than 100 Pennsylvania colleges and universities as part of the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol-Pennsylvania event.

Lehigh Valley professor Barbara Cantalupo and Dubois Professor Emeritus Richard Kopley are notable Edgar Allan Poe scholars, longtime colleagues and friends. Their most recent collaboration, the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, was more than two years in the making.

The Penn State Lehigh Valley CHANCE (Connecting Humans and Nature through Conservation Experiences) program is accepting applications for its summer 2015 field course, which includes travel to Costa Rica and Panama.

During the weekend of Feb. 20-22, three Lehigh Valley students joined hundreds of other Penn State students in the 46-hour, no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon known as THON to raise money for the fight against pediatric cancer.

Penn State Lehigh Valley’s men’s and women’s basketball teams have both advanced to the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) championship tournament for the first time in their short history as campus sports. The teams will both face Penn State Mont Alto this Wednesday, Feb. 18, with the women playing locally at Lehigh Carbon Community College’s gym in Schnecksville at 7 p.m.

Students considering a campus change during their undergraduate education are invited to attend Link UP on March 28 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the HUB Robeson Center of the University Park campus. The Lehigh Valley campus will provide bus transportation for students who pre-register. Students can sign up in room 214 through March 18.

Penn State Lehigh Valley’s newest baccalaureate degree program in Health Policy and Administration is designed to prepare students for high-demand health care careers or advanced study. Lehigh Valley is the only Penn State campus other than University Park to offer this four-year degree, which is enrolling students now for courses beginning this summer.

The Poe Studies Association (PSA) will host its fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference Feb. 26 to March 1 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The conference brings Poe scholars from around the globe to share their research on one of the most famous and best-loved American writers whose influence still inspires the arts throughout the world. Scholars from 24 countries will attend from as far away as Japan and the People's Republic of China to Russia to Algeria to Iceland.

The Penn State Lehigh Valley Alumni Society is inviting the community to a live celebration of THON beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 22, at the ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem. The event is free and open to the public.

As the final donations are tallied up, Penn State Lehigh Valley Benefiting THON, the local campus’ student group, is finalizing plans to keep its dancers motivated and focused heading into THON weekend. Dancer Send-Off, a pep rally of sorts, will be held at 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 19 in room 135 at the campus in Center Valley. The event is free and open to all THON supporters.

Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education’s "Six @ Six" lecture series begins again in March with an in-depth look at the impact that the coal industry had on the people and culture of northeastern Pennsylvania. David Longenbach, instructor in history at Penn State Lehigh Valley, will present six lectures on “Old King Coal – Then and Now: Anthracite, Mining, Immigrants, Unrest, and Unions” at 6 p.m. beginning March 18 at the Lehigh Valley campus. The series is open to the public.

Penn State Lehigh Valley is pleased to announce its partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management, to offer courses to help HR professionals prepare for SHRM’s new competency-based certification: the SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM –CP) and SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) credentials. The first course will begin March 11.

Penn State Lehigh Valley Campus Outreach Services will sponsor a presentation of “He Said-She Said,” an interactive case study designed to continue conversation and education about sexual assault, at 12:15 p.m., Feb. 3 in room 135 at the campus in Center Valley.